Florida Senate - 2015                                     SB 816
       
       
        
       By Senator Grimsley
       
       
       
       
       
       21-00820-15                                            2015816__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to home health agencies; amending s.
    3         400.474, F.S.; revising the information that a home
    4         health agency is required to submit to the Agency for
    5         Health Care Administration for license renewal;
    6         removing the requirement that a home health agency
    7         submit quarterly reports; providing an effective date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 400.474, Florida
   12  Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         400.474 Administrative penalties.—
   14         (7) A home health agency shall submit to the agency, with
   15  each license renewal application, the number of patients who
   16  receive home health services from the home health agency on the
   17  day that the license renewal application is filed, within 15
   18  days after the end of each calendar quarter, a written report
   19  that includes the following data as they existed on the last day
   20  of the quarter:
   21         (a) The number of insulin-dependent diabetic patients who
   22  receive insulin-injection services from the home health agency.
   23         (b) The number of patients who receive both home health
   24  services from the home health agency and hospice services.
   25         (c) The number of patients who receive home health services
   26  from the home health agency.
   27         (d) The name and license number of each nurse whose primary
   28  job responsibility is to provide home health services to
   29  patients and who received remuneration from the home health
   30  agency in excess of $25,000 during the calendar quarter.
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   32  If the home health agency fails to submit the written quarterly
   33  report within 15 days after the end of each calendar quarter,
   34  the Agency for Health Care Administration shall impose a fine
   35  against the home health agency in the amount of $200 per day
   36  until the Agency for Health Care Administration receives the
   37  report, except that the total fine imposed pursuant to this
   38  subsection may not exceed $5,000 per quarter. A home health
   39  agency is exempt from submission of the report and the
   40  imposition of the fine if it is not a Medicaid or Medicare
   41  provider or if it does not share a controlling interest with a
   42  licensee, as defined in s. 408.803, which bills the Florida
   43  Medicaid program or the Medicare program.
   44         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.